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Cloverfield (2008)
Thanks to J. J., the potential of Cloverfield is LOST
Overall I liked the monsters look and style, but hated most of the rest. I thought the camera use was pointless, the 9/11 type sense a blatant attempt to try and evoke those thoughts and memories when it really did not pull it off as good as Godzilla does for japan. It was just blatant. Abrams does his thing which works for LOST and other soap opera type shows, but I wanted to at least learn something about the monster. Key questions that remain unanswered, What exactly is the monster? where did it come from? what caused it? how is the government involved?. This movie is like so many lost episodes, it will answer one question (what does the monster look like), and offer up about 10 more questions without answering them.
The Beach (2000)
Drugs, girls, and paradise can't save this story.
Started great, sloppy middle, ridiculous end. This movie has an identity crisis. It has the constant narrating of Leo just like Fight club did with Pitt. The beginning is a promising story of a confused boy (Leo) just searching for adventure and hoping to find that one perfect utopia in the world. Long story short he finds it and is happy there. But he slowly goes insane and the story culminates in the realization that there is no perfect Utopia and nothing good can last. It is not that this is a bad movie, but half of the time is spent drilling into the viewers mind how great it would be to have sex and smoke pot all the time. The movie could have and should have been shortened about 50 minutes and at a brisker pace would have been great. Instead we are left with a movie that starts out promising, the middle will make you scratch your head, and the ending will make you burn the disc. This movie could have done with a healthy dose of it's own substance for the audience, namely marijuana which is the only way this movie could be considered good.